Swing Time

Match the following

• Energy stored

• Conservation of energy

• Movement back and forth in the same path

• Oscillation

• Energy is not lost but changes form

• Pendulum

• Energy of motion

• Potential energy

• A weight on a string that swings

• Kinetic energy

What is a pendulum?

• A machine that measures time

• A weight hanging from a string that swings back and forth

• A type of clock that tells the wrong time

• A type of energy used to destroy planets

Who studied pendulums around 1600?

• Isaac Newton

• Albert Einstein

• Galileo Galilei

• Teacher Matt

What did Alexis use to hang the pendulum?

• A chocolate bar

• A wooden stick

• An 18-inch string and a small lead weight

• A spring

What type of energy did the pendulum have before being released?

• Kinetic energy

• Banana energy

• Potential energy

• Light energy

What type of energy does the pendulum have while moving?

• Banana energy

• Kinetic energy

• Electric energy

• Stored energy

What principle is shown when the pendulum nearly returns to the same height?

• Gravity’s law

• Conservation of energy

• Law of motion

• Friction rule

What did Alexis measure when Miranda swung the pendulum?

• The height of the swing

• The number of times it hit the chair

• The time it took to complete one swing

• The length of the string

What did the girls discover about the time of one swing when they changed the distance of the swing?

• It got faster with longer swings

• It took more time with shorter swings

• The time stayed the same

• The pendulum stopped moving

What did the girls conclude about the effect of weight on a pendulum’s swing?

• Heavier weights swing faster

• Lighter weights swing slower

• Both heavy and light weights swing the same number of times in equal time

• Weight stops the pendulum from swinging